Celestine Chua✅@Enfors @ken Another plus point that me & @osahiro discussed is how it doesn't publicly show the number of Re-Toots/Favorites in the public timeline. It makes RT/Fav an independent thought affair rather than herd/mob behavior, which I like. Facebook's algorithm, I feel, is just drowning out independent good quality content and increasing the divide between already popular (but not actually good) content & other sites. In a way, I feel online has been mimicking the widening divide offline.
Enfors@Enfors @ken @osahiro I'm sorry to hear that! I feel you; I run a popular self-help site and my kind of (long-form) content no longer have any place in Facebook's algorithm, where content that's repeatedly upvoted/shared are very short-form, repetitive, "same-old" stuff that IMO doesn't move the needle in the big picture. I actually wrote about this at length here and how I deleted my page: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/delete-facebook/ (I still have it; but use it minimally now)
@osahiro @ken @Enfors It is really at the end of the day a race to the bottom (low quality drivel, who posts the thing that incites outrage/reaction/likes the quickest), and while I could just post material that does well in the algorithm, I really feel it's pointless so now I just take a step back and building my audience in other ways
Osahiro